I will tell you privately it’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse all the time, but don’t fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let’s not talk about this, ever again.
BOBBY JONESIf I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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There isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
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I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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